Morphological, histochemical and histoenzymatic investigations on the lungs of mice chronically infected with influenza virus type A.

The lungs of mice having survived three inoculations with influenza virus A/PR8/34 (H1N1) repeated at 7-day intervals (an experimentally induced "chronic" influenza infection) were subjected to histological, electron optic, histochemical and histoenzymatic investigations. Hyperemia, edema and infiltration of the alveolar walls with lymphoid and monocytic elements could be observed. Electron microscopy revealed changes at the level of different ultrastructures of both lung and infiltration cells.

Ultrastructural peculiarities of intercellular junctions in bronchopulmonary carcinomas.

Six bronchopulmonary carcinomas of various histological types (macrocellular, epidermoid) were electronmicroscopically studied on bronchial biopsy samples. The scarcity of intercellular junctions was observed in all of them, especially in carcinoma types or zones (i.e.

Persistent measles virus infection in a calf kidney cell line. Note III. Cellular alterations in the selected chronically infected K-2 cell line.

Marked morphological, growth and chromosome alterations pointing to in vitro cellular transformation were made evident in a selected calf kidney cell line (K-2) chronically infected with measles virus. The transformed cell line released infectant virus and had no oncogenic potential for the hamster.

Experimental aerogenic pulmonary berylliosis in rabbits.

The dynamics of pulmonary changes produced by a prolonged daily administration of 1 g per cent solution of BeSO4 in aerosols was pursued by current histopathological methods in periodically sacrificed rabbits. A progressive constitution of beryliosic granulomas involving intralobular and interlobular areas was observed. The epithelioids and giant cells were present in variable proportions.

Morphogenesis and pathogenesis of chronic lung diseases. X. An anatomoclinical and pathogenetic study of 48 pseudotumoral chronic pneumonites.

Forty-eight cases of operated pseudotumoral chronic pneumonites were anatomoclinically and histogenetically studied. Two groups of cases can be established. The first one (21 cases), in which the histogenetic mechanism is related to previous bronchopulmonary infections, suppurations, and immune processes of the immediate type, is characterized by numerous granulocytic foci, granulomatous structure, Arthus type vasculites and fibrous evolution.

Bronchopulmonary carcinosarcoma.

Carcinosarcoma accounted for 0.27% of nearly 3000 lung cancers examined in this department. All the patients were men aged between 44 and 62 years, and a majority of the tumours occurred in the left lung.

Pleomorphous macrocellular pulmonary carcinomas. An anatomoclinical study on 193 cases.

A pathomorphologic study was carried out by the conventional histologic methods in 193 cases of pleomorphous macrocellular pulmonary carcinoma, of a total of 1,637 cases of lung cancer diagnosed histologically between January 1, 1961 and December 31, 1974. In comparison to other histologic types, the incidence of macrocellular carcinomas was of 11.8%, 62.